Obs. [n. of action f. L. fēriārī: see prec.] Holiday keeping; cessation of work.
1612–15. Bp. Hall, Contempl., N. T. IV. xi. Here was not a mere feriation but a feasting: they must appear before God cum muneribus, with gifts.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. xiii. 222. As though there were any feriation in nature.
1822. Mrs. E. Nathan, Langreath, III. 291. [A pedantic speaker says:] No act of feriation marks the cheerful corn-field.
